The Czech-German grandmaster Vlastimil Hort, a former world number-six, a candidate for the world championship, and a commentator renowned for his wit and humor, died on Monday at the age of 81. The news was confirmed by the Czech Chess Federation...
Just days after celebrating his ninth birthday, CM Luca Protopopescu from France has made chess history. The prodigy from Marseille has become the youngest player ever to cross the 2200 FIDE classical rating mark, an achievement made by beating hi...
Fridrik Olafsson, Iceland’s first grandmaster, two-time Nordic Champion, six-time Icelandic champion, the oldest living candidate for the world chess championship, and former FIDE President, passed away on Friday April 4 aged 90 after enduri...
GM Vidit Gujrathi married Nidhi Kataria on April 2 at the luxurious Oxford Golf Resort in Pune, India. The 30-year-old grandmaster is currently number 25 in the world on the live rating list, and Nidhi, 28, is a homeopathic doctor. The couple brok...
GM Arjun Erigaisi is back to world number-four on the April 2025 FIDE rating list after two wins in the German League saw him leapfrog GM Fabiano Caruana, who lost to GM Hikaru Nakamura in The American Cup. The truly spectacular Indian achievement...
On the road to the grandmaster title, IM-elect Tani Adewumi has only one stop left. In round five of the tournament NYC Chess Norms Spring 2025, the 14-year-old crossed 2400 by live rating and thus completed the final requirement for the internati...
GM Kateryna Lagno has withdrawn from the 2025 FIDE Women’s Grand Prix India in Pune, India, which is part of the women’s world championship cycle. FIDE published that Lagno, as well as IM Sara Khadem, withdrew from the tournament that'...
More than 40 years after the BBC first dipped its programming toe into chess with The Master Game, the network has returned this month with Chess Masters: The Endgame, which airs at 8 p.m. GMT on Monday nights. One of the main differences between ...
One of the Czech Republic's greatest players of all time, GM David Navara, shared deep insights into his life, his passion for chess, and his experiences living with Asperger's syndrome. IM Sagar Shah continues to deliver compelling stories to t...
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju is up to a career-best world number-three on the official March 2025 FIDE rating list after overtaking GMs Fabiano Caruana and Arjun Erigaisi during the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, w...
GM Boris Spassky, the 10th world champion of chess who defeated “Iron” GM Tigran Petrosian in 1969 to reach the chess Olympus and who lost his title to GM Bobby Fischer in the Match of the Century in 1972 in Reykjavik, died on Thursday...
You can now own a truly unique piece of chess history while also supporting a charitable cause. GM Magnus Carlsen recently announced the auction of the famous pair of jeans that led to his forfeit at the FIDE World Rapid Championship in Decem...
Polish number-one GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda’s greatest achievement so far is winning the 2021 FIDE World Cup, but in a recent interview the 26-year-old described that as “a big step backward” for his career. He revealed he’d st...
In a decision by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission (EDC) published on Monday, 43-year-old Latvian IM Andrejs Strebkovs will lose his international master title and his ban from attending FIDE-rated events has been extended from five ye...
GM Gata Kamsky, a former FIDE world championship challenger and world number-four, spoke earnestly about his difficult past on Ilya Levitov's YouTube channel in an interview made available in English last week (originally recorded in October). T...
GM Robert Huebner, the best German chess player since Emanuel Lasker, a four-time world championship candidate, Olympic board one gold medalist, former world number-three, master analyst, writer, polyglot, and papyrologist, has died at the age of ...
Before leaving Singapore, new World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju fulfilled his promise to bungee jump, but in terms of danger it seemed like nothing compared to the crush that greeted him in the airport when he arrived home a hero in Chennai, India. ...
If you play chess, chances are you've heard of IM Levy Rozman. Known as GothamChess, Levy is the world's biggest chess content creator, with millions of fans all around the planet. A Youtuber, commentator, and writer, Levy is now embarking on his ...
GM Arjun Erigaisi became the 15th player in history to break the 2800 Elo barrier in standard chess ratings and only the second Indian player to do so after GM Viswanathan Anand. With 2801, Arjun is the world number-four on the December 2024 FIDE ...
In the process of winning his fourth U.S. Championship title, GM Fabiano Caruana has re-entered the 2800 club and overtaken GM Hikaru Nakamura as the world number-two. Caruana looks to have again found his flow, winning the national title with a 1...
The recently released TV series Rematch, a dramatized version of the legendary matches between GM Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, was an excellent reason for an interview with the 13th world champion. Although he hadn't see the series just yet...
"I'm really looking forward to the world championship match in Singapore," said GM Gukesh Dommaraju in a virtual press conference held on Tuesday, with journalists from different media able to ask questions in a Zoom call. Below we provide the que...
IM Levy Rozman, (aka GothamChess) sent waves across the Twittersphere recently when he toppled GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in Titled Tuesday. However, to a crowd of chess enthusiasts at the University of Florida (UF), his recent presence on their campus...
GM Zenon Franco Ocampos, the first Paraguayan grandmaster and a legendary author and chess coach, has passed away at the age of 68. He died in a hospital in Vigo, Spain on Tuesday, October 1 after suffering a heart attack. Franco was born in the...
Indian GM Gukesh Dommaraju has broken into the world top-five for the first time on the October 2024 FIDE rating list after scoring double gold at the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, while also growing the gap to his world championship oppon...
